This blog includes writing from elementary students, and shows work at all stages from first to final drafts.
Work with this logo: has been edited once.
Work with this logo: is in a final form.
We do this to show the whole writing process, and hope you enjoy seeing how we learn.
Rules for the Computer Lab
1. Treat them right, and they will treat you right. Be gentle and take care of them.
2. Do not share personal information online. Don't share passwords with others online.
3. Work on building a community, try to help and support others. If you don't have something nice to say, you shouldn't say it.
4. Use language, spelling, and grammar appropriate (correct) for school.
5. Go only to online sites you are sent to. Always check before going somewhere that is not on a list of links from your teacher.
6. If you change someone else's work (like on a wiki) make sure it's to improve the work, not to be mean or take revenge.
7. Get educated, get learning, but have fun while you're doing it.
Like last week you will be working on research for the “Living Museum”. Use the links at the right, or do a Google search for information. You should take notes in either a Google Document, or on paper with pen/pencil.
Ms. Liemthongsamout’s class
Think about a problem in your neighborhood or community that needs to be changed. What is that problem? Why does it need to be changed? Please send me three complete sentence describing the problem, why it is a problem, and why you think it needs to be fixed.
I want you to think back about our first unit, Perseverance, and to think about what that quality has to do with the Civil Rights Movement.
Go back to this post, and read some of the comments, review the slideshow, and the video.
Come back here, and pick two questions to answer:
Do you think that the people involved in the struggle for civil rights (Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr.) and the people you are reading about in the Taking a Stand unit (Gandhi) ever felt frustrated?
Do you think these people had to use self-control?
Do you think they might have used any of the self-control methods we talked about?
Why would self-control be important for people like MLK, Rosa Parks, and Gandhi?
Do you think it will help you in your struggles to use self-control?
I want to you concentrate on how Jim Crow affected peoples ability to get around. Here are some links, concentrate on the ones that discuss the bus boycotts, and Rosa Parks. I’ve also added a couple of new links on Rosa Parks:
What you will do today is research. You will get information that will help you write and essay or a poem. I’m going to give you some links to sites that have links to information about
There are at least two writing contest this month about civil rights. You will do writing to enter at least one of the contests.
SacRT (the local bus) is sponsoring a contest called “A Season of Civil Rights” about public transport and civil rights. Here are the rules:
Write a poem of 10 lines or less;
The subject should be civil rights and transit (public transport like buses)
I am still locating information on the essay contest. It will involve more writing (essays are usually three to five paragraphs, with three to five sentences in each paragraph). The subject will be about Martin Luther King, Jr and his work.
What you will do today is research. You will get information that will help you write and essay or a poem. I’m going to give you some links to sites that have links to information about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the history of African Americans in this country. Go to the links, then come back here, and tell me three things that you learned that you can include in a poem or essay.
